AnticoItalie, 1460–1528Statuette pacing horse
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Londres, Royaume-Uni
SalleMedieval & Renaissance, Room 64, The Wolfson Gallery
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À propos de la sculpture
Horses like this, based on the famed antique Horses of San Marco, were extremely popular, as were classical examples. Nonetheless, the collector Fra Sabba di Castiglione ridiculed ‘the man who spends five hundred ducats on a silly little antique horse of bronze, which not only cannot carry him, but is itself a load to carry’.
The statuette depends directly from the southernmost of the Horses of San Marco. Several horses of this type exist. The present bronze is the finest, and reproduces uniquely the blocked mane of the Horses of San Marco. A small hole in either flank seems to indicate that it may at one time have borne a rider.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- A.15-1957
Ce qu’elle montre
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Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image : Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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